Submission + - Difficult campground wifi design
MahlonS writes: "I am a retired network hack wintering in my RV in a campground in southern GA. 3 years ago I reconfigured the wifi system to a marginal working ability, It's now ready for a serious upgrade prompted by a new cable net connection replacing a weak DSL. 5 dual radio HP Curve access points connect to a 6th via single or double radio hops (effectively a Wireless Distribution System) in heavily wooded space. Unidirectional antennas at the APs are placed on poles above the RVs, about 15 feet above ground. Primary hops are about 300 feet to 3 of the APs, secondary hops about the same. Signal measurements indicate that there is adequate RF between the access points. In 2008, average user count averaged about 30 users; newer devices (smart phones, etc) will likely increase that number (winter population total is about 80 RVs). While the old design worked OK when lightly loaded, I suspect that the single DSL line generated so many packet resends that the APs were flooded. APs are in water resistant enclosures. This is a quasi-State Park, so money is always an issue, but there is enough squawk from the user community that a modest budget might be approved
The main AP connects to an old Cisco router. Burying wire is frowned upon, due to shallow utilities, and campfire rings that float around the campsites sometimes melting TV cables. Since I'm not up on current wifi tech, are there solutions out there that would make this system work much better? (Resubmitted from https://slashdot.org/submission/1853742/difficult-campground-wifi-design )"
The main AP connects to an old Cisco router. Burying wire is frowned upon, due to shallow utilities, and campfire rings that float around the campsites sometimes melting TV cables. Since I'm not up on current wifi tech, are there solutions out there that would make this system work much better? (Resubmitted from https://slashdot.org/submission/1853742/difficult-campground-wifi-design )"
